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An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS (arstechnica.com)
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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don’t ever connect them to the internet. Period.

If it’s required, buy a different tv. It’s not difficult to look that up beforehand.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Checking before buy buying will be possible for computer and privacy « educated » people only, that leaves almost everyone helpless in the real world, in a store facing TVs all playing the demo video. Maybe some will read Amazon reviews or do actual research… hope.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I suspect in the near future it will be impossible to buy a TV without spyware/adware. The only option will be to not connect it to the internet and run your own Raspberry PI/SBC based solution.

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

If I worked for the manufacturer I'd just piggy back on other TVs networks to communicate. Wouldn't work if you live in the country but for everyone else I'd just need a similar brand within wifi range.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff and so won’t the premium televisions.

The super budget/sold at a loss TVs will absolutely be gutted for spyware.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff and so won’t the premium televisions.

I have a feeling premium TVs won't escape adware/spyware either. They can get their margin on the hardware and earn some more money on spyware; I don't see what incentive they have to not do both. I hope I am wrong though.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

You’re not wrong, there are a number of videos from Louis Rossman (right to repair advocate) on YouTube lambasting LG for doing this very thing on their high-end G-series OLED TVs; including defaulting to opt-in to marketing and providing PIR data after an automatic update.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Premium televisions are already pumped full of this stuff

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yup. I don't know if it's all of them, but Louis Rossmann had a video where he ranted about this BS in his high end TV.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Monitors aren’t being pumped full of this stuff

I hope this is just marketing then...